Russian Venezuelan

Project

Lerochka Smetanina & Jose ReyesLerochka Smetanina & Jose Reyes

Diary of the interviews03/21/2012: We met each others and divided in pairs and groups. On the Russian side there were two students and, in the Venezuelan side were three students.

03/28/2012: in this day we had to talk about two topics, ecology and technology, based on the documentary “HOME”. We talked about the ecology in our countries and cities and influences of the technology in ecological problems.

04/11/2012: the final interview was about culture and hobbies. We shared information about our traditions and festivities, specially about the Easter which was the recently celebrated holiday in the two countries and them we shared some songs and pictures.

She is 18 years old, live with her mother and grandmother (and her cat). She is a History and Theory of International Relations student at the Omsk State University of Fyodor Dostoevsky.

About her country: Russia is a very cold country. They only have hot weather in the summer. She loves the summer and warm climate and wait every year for the summer, what is her favorite season of the year.

About Lera:

Lera and her mother

About Jose:

He is 25 years. He lives with his mother and his brother. He is a student at the University of Rafael Belloso, he studies Software Engineers. He likes languages and is studying English and Italian. About his country: it’s a very warm, specially his city. As a tropical country they don’t have seasons but in the first month and the last ones (January- February, November- December) the temperatures come down.

Jose, his mother and his brother

The Two Universities:

Omsk State University Of Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Rafael Belloso Chacin University (URBE)

The HOME Project: Ecology and Technology

Lera: "I was impressed by how dirty the air people breathe in different countries. Our city is dirty, because in our city there oil factory"

Jose: It’s a very common and uncontrolled problem in the world the differences between the rich and pours. So many countries build large building, while others living between the waste of the others. The people can make their

Solutions:

ReuseEvery thing that you can. Example: papers, plastic bottles.

Reduce The consume of non recyclable or biodegradables products

Recycle Make a selection in your house of every thing you will send to the trash

Conscience Don’t send trashes to the rivers or empty chemical liquids into the ground or natural flow of water

Lera: “In Maracaibo more common gadgets than in our

country”“in their country distributed

various brands. there are some that aren’t common in our

country. For example BlackBerry”

Technology: gadgets and market

Jose: “ there aren’t a lot of differences of technologies and brands comparing with Omsk. Like us the have cellphones, Ipods, computers etc. For me was very curious that they don’t have the Blackberry cellphones in there because is a very common cellphone brand in the country and the continent.

Most common and popular brands in our countries:

Technology: the brands

Culture: holidays, hobbies and interests

The Easter

In Venezuela In RussiaThey paint eggs

Make some prays

Go to the temples

Make processions

People burns puppetsnamed “Judas” with faces of non grate persons.

Go to the church and pray

Special Holidays

Venezuela Russia

- New year (January 1st) - New year (January 1st international celebration, January 14th according Julian Calendar), Christmas (January 7th)

- Carnivals (February or March) - The defender of the fatherland day (February 23)

- Easter (April or May), Women’s day (May 8th)

- Easter (April or May),

- Mothers day (3rd Sunday of the month of may)

- Victory day (May 9)

- Fathers day (3rd Sunday of the Month of June)

- Independence Day (June 12)

- Independence day (July 5) - Women’s day (May 8)

- Hispanity day (LAT) / Indians resistance day (VE)

- Mother’s day (November 25)

- Christmas day (December 25 ) / New year’s eve (December 31)

- New Year (December 31, according Gregorian calendar)

Culture: music genres

Electronic

Rock

Classics

Classical(Academic)

Llanera

Limeicks

Traditional

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Jose likes:

Lera likes:

Music

Pop

Hip-Hop

Hobbies and Sports

Lera Jose

Baseball

Hobbies

Sports

Watch TV

Go to the mall

Hang out with her friends

Reading

Hockey

SwimmingBiathlon

Figure Skating

Football (soccer)

Rappelling

Hang out with his friends

Rescue training

Excursions

Expedition

Jogging

Running

Now reading…

Lera is reading Lolita from the Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov.

Jose is reading the Teeth of the Tiger from the American writer Tom Clancy.